In situ stress measurement of fiber reinforced composite in low temperature state by neutron diffraction

The tungsten fiber reinforced titanium composite (W/Ti) was produced by the spot welding method. The internal stress alteration of the W/Ti composite was measured by the neutron diffractometer, DN1, which had been installed at beam port #6 in National Nuclear Energy Agency Indonesia. The two-dimensional detector and cryostat system were mounted on the DN1 diffractometer, and the residual stress alterations were measured by the in situ neutron stress measurement technique under the cooling cycles from 300 K to 10 K. Residual stresses in tungsten fiber were investigated at several temperatures. In the longitudinal fiber direction, the thermal residual stresses of tungsten fiber became a large compressive state and represented the maximum value is about -950 MPa. The calculated results of the simple elastic model agreed with the experimental results of the in situ thermal stress measurement qualitatively. It is assumed that the stresses in the fiber longitudinal direction are the dominant stresses in the W/Ti composite.